The art of the Italian renaissance; a handbook for students and travellers (1903)
Wölfflin, Heinrich, 1864-1945, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, G. P. Putnam's sons; London, W. Heinemann · leaf 297
apparent irregularity was irresistible. The equilateral 1 This is a suitable occasion to mention a motive of perspective. The later Quattro-cento attempted sometimes to produce an attractive effect by placing the vanishmg pomtof the lines at the side, not outside the picture, but yet towards the… … Tliu Death of Peter Miirtyr, l.,y Gentile Bellini(■.). triiingle )xc-ame a scalene triangle, and the .system of symmetrical axes\\as sjiifted, Init the kernel of the effect remained the same, and theimpression of ineyitability would be kept up eyen in an entirely non-tectonicgroup. Thus we are led…
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